January 2010 Archives

HILLINGDON'S new Borough Commander was out on the beat in Uxbridge yesterday morning to promote the launch of the new Safer Neighbourhood Campaign.

The message 'Walking is Working' is the theme of the Met's campaign, aimed at highlighting the presence of Safer Neighbourhood Teams, and their accessibility to residents.

The campaign is made up of footprints to symbolise officers and PCSOs walking the streets, and an Ad van pulled up outside Uxbridge tube station yesterday to drum home the message, and it will be attending the Lombardy Retail Park in Hayes later in the day.

TWO of Uxbridge's political leaders have spoken of their excitement that the Chinese Olympic squad could be coming to the town in 2012.

The Gazette revealed this week that delegates from the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) had toured the sports facilities at Brunel University and the soon to be opened Uxbridge Lido swimming pool.

MP John Randall, (Con) who represents Uxbridge and South Ruislip, said: "I think it would be extremely good news for the area.

WHAT IS sadder than the thought of Garry Cook crying into his cornflakes this morning?

Well probably nothing to be fair, has a Carling Cup game ever put the Premiership into the back seat like last night?

Away from the top flight action, and to Crystal Palace, where starlet Victor Moses was banned from playing.

Why? Because he was suspended? No, because he is too good and Palace are too poor, literally, broke.

A war veteran was among the special visitors to the ADHYA SHAKTI MATAJI TEMPLE in Cowley High Street.

Walter Hinges a war veteran from Chelsea Royal Hospital, PC Ross Swallow and Sergeant Nick Davis from Hillingdon Police Station and Councillor Judith Cooper from Hillingdon Council were among esteemed guests at a special afternoon on Friday.

It was a very special day at the Temple where Walter Hinges known as "Wally'' shared his first hand experiences of World War II in Japan.

THE Chinese Olympic team are a gong strike away from making Uxbridge their base for the 2012 games.

Delegates from the Chinese Olympic committee have paid the town a secret visit to investigate the possibility of basing their team in Uxbridge for the London games or for a pre-games training camp.

The delegates were given a tour of Brunel University's top class athletics facilities, and the soon to be opened Olympic sized swimming pool at Uxbridge Lido.

OFFICES in Uxbridge have been sold for £19.2 million, twice what was paid for it in April.

Capital Court, in Windsor Street, Uxbridge was owned by the Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust.

It has been bought by Orchard Street Management, and is let to firms inluding recruiters Manpower UK and solicitors Iliffes Booth Bennett.

The property had preiously been bought in April for 10.98m, and the announcement was made yesterday (Tuesday) the day it was also announced Britain was out of recession.

A TRAVEL group which organises Caribbean holidays organised a charity raffle to raise money for Haiti.

Staff at Armstrong House, in Uxbridge High Street, spent a week gathering prizes from businesses around Uxbridge to offer to lucky raffle winners on Monday afternoon.

Among those who donated were the Baroosh restaurant in Uxbridge and The Chimes shopping centre.

The raffle was organised by Charlene Horn, who works in sales support at ITG Sales and Marketing, alongside the Ickenham Travel Group.

The team also made tea and cakes at a charge of £2 a head all day, to go alongside raffle prizes which were also donated from The Entertainer, Balcony Shirts, and the Nona Rosa restaurant.

THE 20th anniversary of Churches Together in Uxbridge (CTU) was celebrated in style last weekend.

The group was launched to forge links between the town's churches and improve projects for the young and the elderly.

More than 100 guests attended the anniversary lunch at Watts Hall in Redford Way, Uxbridge, including the deputy mayor of Hillingdon, Councillor David Yarrow, and council leader Ray Puddifoot.

A FIRST planning application for the RAF Uxbridge site has been lodged with Hillingdon Council.

Developers, VSM Estates, want to build 1,425 homes on the historic site, where many view as the place where the Battle of Britain in World War Two was won.

The plans also include a 1,200 seat theatre, a GP surgery, a primary school, and a hotel, as well as retail space and accomodation for the elderly.

THE future of Base Bar in Uxbridge is still to be decided after a licensing meeting held today (Wednesday) was adjourned until February.

However, conditions were placed on the bar in the interim, meaning it's closing hours must be reduced from 2am to 12pm

A meeting held at Hillingdon's Civic Centre today was brought after police requested a review be taken, claiming trouble emanating from the bar was a 'drain on resources'.